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SWINBURNE'S FUNERAL.

Doubtless SWINBURNE'S last command that no religious rites should be performed at his grave ought to have been obeyed. But his friends are to blame, not the Bonchurch clergyman, for the reading of the Church burial service. The funeral was ordered by telegraph, and instructions to a minister of the Church to omit the functions of his office in conducting a ceremonial are clearly irregular. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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